Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before.
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In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from Franceâ€™s Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraftâ€™s Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. Footsteps is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelations.
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â€œDeeply impressive . . .Â Footsteps is a singular event in the modern history of biography, and in itself a delightful reading experience.â€â€”Alfred Kazin
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â€œThis exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.â€â€”The Observer
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â€œA modern masterpiece . . . [Holmes is] the most romantic of contemporary biographers and probably the most revolutionary in spirit and form.â€â€”Michael Holroyd, author of Bernard Shaw
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0679770046_used
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1996-04-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679770046

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0679770046_used
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1996-04-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679770046

Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

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